Alexander Hamilton Coffroth

Alexander Hamilton Coffroth (18 May 1828-2 September 1906) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-PA 16) from 4 March 1863 to 18 July 1866, succeeding Joseph Bailey and preceding William H. Koontz, and from PA 17 from 4 March 1879 to 3 March 1881, interrupting Jacob M. Campbell's terms.

Biography
Alexander Hamilton Coffroth was born in Somerset, Pennsylvania in 1828, and he published a Democratic paper in Somerset for five years. In 1851, he became a lawyer, and he served as a delegate to several Democratic state conventions before serving in the US House of Representatives from 1863 to 1866. He supported the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in January 1865, but he left office after William H. Koontz contested his election. He returned to Congress from 1879 to 1881, and he resumed his law practice until his death in 1906.